A “perfect storm” of problems awaits families as the pandemic supports and protections are wound down, the Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) has warned. A lack of “joined up thinking” on the removal of the moratorium on energy disconnections and evictions, and the ending of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) in the coming months will…
Simone Weil for the Twenty-First Century by Eric O. Springsted (University of Notre Dame Press, US$35.00 pb/£25.00 pb) The Subversive Simone Weil: A life in five ideas by Robert Zaretsky (University of Chicago Press, US$20.00 hb/£16.00 hb) Frank Litton What theologians, philosophers, public intellectuals who hold centre-stage today will still be highly regarded and their work studied 80…
Archbishop Paul Coakley said May 26, that the tragic shootings at a rail yard in San Jose, California, “reminds us once again that something fundamentally broken in our society and culture must be courageously examined and addressed”. The shooting that left 9 people dead and multiple people injured took place at 6:48am at the Valley…
Naoibhein Ri Naomh Calum Cille/Nóibhéine Do Naomh Colm Cille/A Novena to Saint Columba by Fr Ross S. J. Crichton (Mungo Books/CTS, £3.95; ISBN 978-1-78469-658-0; bulk orders to Mungo Books, 6 Rob Roy Gardens, Kirkintilloch, Glasgow G661DQ) This little book marks a revival of the Mungo Books imprint, whose principal focus will be on publications of Scottish…
Every day is “remembrance day” in St Agatha’s parish, of the 28 people killed and over 90 injured after four bombs were dropped on Dublin’s North Strand 80 years ago. “The loss of 28 people, it’s just extraordinary,” Fr Brendan Kealy of St Agatha’s told The Irish Catholic. “Every day here is a remembrance day…
Irish Jesuit Provincial Fr Leonard Moloney SJ reflects on St Ignatius’s conversion and his legacy in Ireland, writes Ruadhán Jones On May 20, 1521, while St Ignatius of Loyola was attempting to defend a citadel in the town of Pamplona, Spain, his leg was shattered by a cannonball. Famously, this accident precipitated the vain young…
International Men’s Health Week is coming up, and stark statistics show just how vital it is, writes Jason Osborne International Men’s Health Week begins every year on the Monday before Father’s Day and ends on Father’s Day itself, meaning this year it runs from Monday June 14 to Sunday June 20. An initiative of the…
A strict religious life that is highly regimented does not fit well with modern tastes, writes David Quinn ‘Was Mother Teresa a cult leader?’, ran the headline in The New York Times last week, and with that began yet another attack on the Catholic saint. St Teresa of Kolkata, as she is now known within…
A bill proposed by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party would criminalise “harassment” of women entering abortion clinics. The bill was introduced May 21 by the PSOE’s coalition in the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of Spain’s legislature, and would criminalise “harassing women going to clinics for the voluntary interruption of pregnancy”. Penalties for…
Letter from Rome Whenever there’s a vacancy in the papacy, a few old saws about the process of choosing a Pope shoot back into circulation. “He who enters a conclave a Pope, exits a cardinal,” is a perennial, as is, “Those who talk don’t know, and those who know don’t talk”. (Both are actually half…
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